Return to work after medical rehabilitation in Germany: influence of individual factors and regional labour market based on administrative data

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Number of cases and exclusion criteria

	Orthopaedics		Psychosomatics
Patients who completed medical rehabilitation in 2016 (the last rehabilitation if more than one)	360,285		131,404
− Exclusion based on theoretical considerations	52,653	14.6%	13,458	10.2%
Duration of rehabilitation: shorter than 7 days
Special types of rehabilitation: contract performance^a, aftercare, prevention, cancer, detoxification
At the time of application: old-age pensioner, housewife/husband, not in working age (between 18 and 65 years), residence abroad/unknown
In the year prior to application: no compulsory contributions to the GPI^b
In the observation period: death
− Exclusion because of missing data	1652	0.5%	560	0.4%
= Final database	305,980	84.9%	117,386	89.3%

^aFor example cancer rehabilitation for the statutory health insurance, ^bfor example eligible long-term unemployed patients